Daedalus 142:4 (Fall 2013) - American Music

Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The theme for the Fall 2013 issue is "American Music." This is Our MusicGerald EarlyThe ScreamersPatrick BurkeYellow Skin, White MasksMina YangListening to the NowDavid RobertsonHomophobia in Twentieth-Century The Crucible of America’s SoundNadine HubbsThe Ruth Crawford Seeger SessionsEllie M. HisamaJohnny Cash & the Politics of Country MusicDaniel GearyHollywood as Music Museum & Bringing Various Musical Styles to a Wide AudienceCharlotte From Time to Torque (Dance Floor Democracy at the Hollywood Canteen)Sherrie TuckerPioneers of the Concept AlbumTodd DeckerLong Time, No Revisiting Fats Waller’s Lost Broadway MusicalJohn H. McWhorterThe Power of Suggestion & the Pleasure of Groove in Robert Glasper’s Black RadioGuthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.The Sound of Racial FeelingRonald RadanoSatchmo’s An Excerpt from Satchmo at the WaldorfTerry TeachoutExcerpts from Passport to ParisVernon DukeA Good Chord on a Bad PianoWeldon Kees